I used to post a lot of crap Perth logos on The Worst of Perth. I stopped when the hoped for call to address the Graphic Design Association never arrived. What’s the deal with that? They think they’re better than me?

But here’s two submissions, one from Bento (yes The Good riddance Sattler’s old Mum Bento) where he righteously asks. “Wot fuck dis shit?” Actually Bento said, “It seems to be a half deflated soccer ball, in the shape of Western Australia, wearing a hat, and shouting at Melbourne. What the fuck is that all about?”

And here’s some graphic design from ManOfaSon who questions the power of a nipple to break through several layers of clothing including a She-Ra style power jacket. Anyone guessing a male graphic designer? Who’s doing Transperth?

28 Responses to The Nipple and The Glory

Like me the TransPerth artist is possibly a starved and frustrated tittiphile.
On the other hand he could be a bit of a piss taker.
Or maybe *she* is a cock teaser, or even a Klimpt teaser.
Who can tell?
It’s a world of little mysteries: Like who the hell is sufficiently mentally deranged to care enough about a sports team that has to import most of it’s players in order to achieve notoriety for lack of success.
Perhaps “Glory Hole” might be a more appropriate appellation.
There, at least, the suckers might get some joy out of it.

It’s a perfectly logical graphic graphic which captures the irresistable appeal of sustainable public transport to a diverse demographic. Many people including myself find the mere sight of Transperth’s service updates highly exciting, and I definitely would only open the Journey Planner (whoaarrh) in the privacy of my own home.

In fact perthstripper.com.au – thanks Francis Xavier(https://theworstofperth.com/2008/11/17/miss-nude-has-no-nipple) should add it to their repertoire:
“For this very explicit show the girl will perform a sizzling strip followed by a hot live boolean search of Transperth’s metadata to find the quickest journey to the Stirling Arms in time for the sunday session.”

If I was to name the offending ad agency in question, it’s either Rare Creative (a local mob) or Marketforce (should be nailed to the cross) before they lost the WA Govt. contract. Gut feeling however gives it to Rare because the design and thinking behind the copy is their kind of style.

@Bill O”Slatter – lost my journey planner and timetable for the stations of the cross, got a spare one lying around?

I reckon the Hyde Park Hotel building itself has gotta be given a worst. It’s basically a painted brick cube with a door.

The Glory Shed Supporters Club used to have their “home” at the Hotel Northbridge on the corner of Brisbane and Lake Street (not to be confused with the Brisbane Hotel on Brisbane and Beaufort). Fair dinkum they used to get on the turps there before the game and then GET ON THEIR BUS to take them the TWO BLOCKS to the ground!

BTW theres one of those TransPerth graphic ad things in the Esplanade Busport supposedly showing a satellite or some such thing fallen into the middle of a street in Joondalup in front of a green bus, while some chick is shown drinking coffee and perusing the TransPerth website, apparently deciding to take the train to uni. Wow.

On the Transperth theme: the new Smartrider ads are pretty shocking. They have some kind of storyline, a bunch of sentient piggybanks dressed up like members of TISM who aren’t happy they’re getting replaced by a smartcard. There’s little pig images stuck on walls / lifts / etc at Esplanade busport, and a heap of these enormous posters on the walls in the northern entrance to the underground platforms at Perth station (the end with an escalator in only one direction, in true Transperth style), which stand out due to being the only things on the bright orange tiled walls. I’m not sure if I preferred those walls when they were blank…